If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Good manners require space and time.